Boo! She’s back.

Sister/co-host Kerry’s back and up to her old tricks on Outlook this week.

A lot to cover again on this Mixed Bag episode. Kerry teases her new audio description company she’s part of that will be revealed on the next show, but first her and brother co-host Brian discuss the state of podcasting today, along with other social media trends and where to take Outlook.

As we share about our fall so far, Brian reveals recording of some music with his band at a local studio, The Sugar Shack, as the weather grows cold, announcing something upcoming of his own.

Kerry tells of a chronic grief about missing colours, like the colours of the changing leaves. She still has all the other senses this time of year.

Halloween brings the end of October and the end of Bam. Blindness Awareness Month is still on for a little while longer, as Brian shares about ODEN (Ontario Disability Employment Network). Their theme for this one is Inclusive Employment Across Canada: Building a Workforce Without Barriers. Barriers oh barriers, that’s all we keep hearing about, that barriers are recognised, but then what? Where are we headed with all of this?

We’re sharing trailers of documentaries today, where we demonstrate why audio description is so needed, The Alabama Solution and Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, but what would it be like if you could only hear them? We debate documentaries not saying their names in the trailer.

As No Kings just happened, we discuss oppression in prisons, shown on The Alabama Solution dock. Fighting defeat, apathy, we do not submit prematurely.

This week Kerry explains about her team’s most recent project on deaf actress and activist, Marlee Matlin, starting with the trailer, mostly sign language. On Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, Kerry learned, through working to add audio description to it, how adding AD and ASL can produce something that flows well together.

As Brian lets slip something controversial, we learn all sorts of things about Marlee’s life, through this PBS documentary. Kerry explains, again, what extended audio description is as we lead up next week to the official announcement.

And some tips about our tips, white cane tips.

Go Jays!

Note: At one point Kerry said translator when she meant intervener.